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• parm /parm/ n. Further-compressed form of param.
  This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shop...
• param /p*-ram'/ n. [common] Shorthand for `parameter'. See also parm; compare arg, var.
• arg: /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte').
  The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args....
• arg /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte').
  The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args....
• var /veir/ or /var/ n. Short for `variable'. Compare arg, param.
• AI /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so common that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.
• AI: /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so common that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• patch space: n. An unused block of bits left in a binary so that it can later be modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically
  he patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is patched to contain a jump or call to the patch space)....
• exec: /eg-zek'/ vt., n. 1. [UNIX: from `execute'] Synonym for {chain}, derives from the `exec(2)' call.
  2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an {OS} (see {shell})...